Cloth-piling machine



0. e. NORTON AND A. DUROT. CLOTH FILING MACHINE. I APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9. I920.-

Patented May 30, 1922 2 SHEETS-SHEET 'DJ'G. NORTONlANDA. DUROT. CLOTH FILING MACHINE. IAPPLICATIQN. FlL-ED DEC.9, 1920.

Patented :May 30,1922.

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To aZ Z whom it may concern: I

Be it known that we, Dav n Gnonen Non.- TON, asubj'ect' of the King of Great Britain and 7 Ireland, and ALBERT Duno'r, a citizen I Our invention comprises the combination with the usual cloth guide reciprocated across the machine, of tubular rails extending the length of the machine upon which the winch carriage rides, right and left hand screws extending through the said tubular rails, means upon the carriage engaging the said screws and means for rotating the winch as it is reciprooated by the screws;

Our invention further comprises the arrangement within each tubular rail of a relatively short sleeve threaded on its exterior with a right and left hand screw, and feather keyed upon a power driven shaft within it, with means for holding the said sleeve in any desired position, where piling is to be effected, the sleeve being then moved longitudinally to any desired new position so that successive batches of cloth can be piled in different places. 1

Referring to the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings Figure 1' is a front elevation, partly in section, of a cloth piling machine constructed in one convenient form in accordance with our invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the machine. I

Figure 3 is a sectional end elevation on the line AB of Figure '1 looking from left to right, showing apart of the machine only.

Figures 4; and 5 are respectively front elevation and plan illustrating the application of our invention to thepiling of cloth in several places by the one winch.

Figure 6 shows the winch carriage trav ersing means drawn to an enlarged scale.

Figure 7 illustrates the closure or union CLQ'IH-PIL -ING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent s r srn JAMES rant/ma & sons 1.1mm), or snnronn, MAN- Pa ented Ma 0 .1922- 'Application filed December 9, 1920. Serial No; 429,564.

of the ends of the right and left hand threads of the scr'ews employedto impart reciprocatory"movements'to the winch and guide eye. I

The same reference letters in the different views indicate'the same or similar parts."

The piling machine illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 comprises a guide eye a carried by the member I) which is clamped around but is free to slide along the tube 0. The latter has a slot therein through which'the projecting -part d of the member 6 can extend to engage the right and left hand screwedspindle e whereby the eye 03 is traversed back and forth across the machine. The right and left hand threads of the spindle e are closed or united at each end by studs or directing pieces as c, Figure 7, so that they form as 1t were a cont nuous thread extending and returning along 0 for imparting the said back and forth motion to the eye a.

Extending along the sidesof the machine are tubular rails f, g each having a slot therein and co-axially through the said rails extend right and left hand screwed shafts The latter are rotated by the bevel wheels j, h, from the shaft m which is rotated by a chain it from the power shaft 39 having the belt pulleys g thereon. The shaft on also drives the shaft 6 by the spur wheels r, s. I

The winch t is carried by wheels a, a which run upon the rails f, 9 before referred to, the wheels a being. free upon the spindles o carrying the belt pulleys w.

A belt to around said pulleys and the pulley w upon the winch spindle y, rotates the winch as the latter is reciprocated. Depending pieces .a from the winch carriage 2 pass through the slots in the rails g and engage the screws 71 2' whereby the winch carriage is reciprocated along the machine. The said screws have right and left hand threads with united ends as with the like threads of the spindle e aforesaid.

The interior of the rails f, g and tube o The drum 3 serves to draw the fabric p which is in rope form through the eye a. The fabric then passes over the winch 1i which. gives a wavy motion tothe length of fabric suspended from the winch so as to pile the fabric in the well known manner.

The arrangement before described is particularly advantageous for allowing of the fabric being piled in different places to suit requirements. Thus in Figure 5, the fab ric can be piled byv the one winch in the receptacles 5, 6 and 7, and another winch can pile the fabric in the receptacles 8, 9 and 10. To accomplish this the right and left hand screws h and 2' are formed on the exterior of sleeves as 11, Figure 6, and each sleeve is feather-keyed upon the power driven shaft '12. The ends of the sleeve abut againstcollars. 13, each of which. canbe locked by a pin 14 which passes through a hole in the rails f, g in any predetermined position to ensure that the piling of the fab rictakes place correctly in the different receptacles. In Figure 4, the winch is shown at the ends of its various lengths of traverse for piling the fabric into its different rece tacles.

aving now described our invention what we claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is v I 1. In cloth piling machines, the combination with the usual cloth guide reciprocated across the machine, of tubular rails extending the length of the machine upon which the winch carriage rides, right and left hand screws extending through the said tubular rails, means upon the carriage engaging the said screws through slots in the tubular rails, and means for rotating the winch as it is reciprocated by the screws, as set forth. 4 1

2. In cloth piling machines as claimedin Claim 1, the arrangement of the right and left hand screws upon relatively short sleeves feather-keyed upon power driven.

shafts extending through the tubular rails,

with means for locating the said sleeves in any desired position upon their shafts, as

set forth. a

In testimony whereof we have signedour names to this specification. g f

DAVID GEORGE NORTON. ALBERT DUROT. 

